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From: radke@dsdl.ee.iastate.edu (Kevin Radke)
Subject: Re: GNAT's Text_IO & empty files
Date: 1998/07/07
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Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA  USA
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1998-07-07T00:00:00+00:00
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How should an ada compiler act when it finds an "ill-formed"
text file?  As an example, on the Win32 platform, it is VERY
easy to create a text file (with a brain-dead editor like notepad)
that does not terminate the final line of the file with
CR/LF before the EOF is reached.

What should a compiler do when an user tries to do a
text_io.get_line on this final line of the file?  One
compiler that we use raises "end_error".  This has
forced us to change our code to read in a file character
by character... :(  Not very efficient...

Thanks!
Kevin